This document summarizes a presentation about new features in the latest version of Moodle. It outlines several question types, report features, and other improvements to the course editing interface. It also demonstrates new capabilities in Moodle Mobile and highlights some recently approved plugins. Finally, it discusses upcoming Moodle events and trends, such as PHP 7 compatibility and using facial recognition with Moodle.

1. Moodle
“It’s not a whole new Moodle;
it’s just the best one yet!”
Presented at the “Yorkshire/ Humber FE Moodle User Group” November 2015
Creative Commons License
Lewis Carr

2. Headline Features
Question Types that made core
- Select Missing Word
- Drag and Drop Into Text
- Drag and Drop Onto Image
- Drag and Drop Markers
Reports
- Workshop Submission Report
- Resources display upload date
Other
- Resources display upload date
- Enrollment Screen Filters
- Improved Course Section Editing
- Reset Dashboard Button for
Admins
- Plugins and Dependencies and
easier upgrading
- ATTO Table Improvements
- Message Deletion
https://youtu.be/KsX-czBEy4w

3. Cheeky little features
- Option to delete wiki pages on
course reset
- Unapproved databases entries
highlighted
- Gradebook “categories and
items” now labelled as
“Gradebook Setup”
- More maths equation buttons in
ATTO
- Upgrade Key required on
upgrade/admin page
- Automated backup setting to
remove old backups
Features that don’t make the headlines but are invaluable!
https://youtu.be/KsX-czBEy4w

4. LIVE DEMO
Live Demo of Moodle 3 and questions

5. Moodle Mobile 2
http://prototype.moodle.net/mobile/moodlemobile2/
New Features
Supports Choice Activity
Supports Chat Activity
Supports Surveys
Course Search
Self-enrolment

6. Recently Approved Plugins
https://moodle.org/plugins/report/index.php?report=approved_plugins

7. Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites
Progress Bar OAuth Level Up!

8. Questionnaire Attendance Poster
Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites

9. Checklist Collapsed Topics Moodle
Welcome
Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites

10. Microsoft Word
Quiz Export
Scheduler Lightbox Gallery
Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites

11. Plugins that have got my attention
(Trawling the Moodle plugins directory so you don’t have to)

12. Group Choice
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_choicegroup
This module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a
course.
The teacher can choose from which groups the students can chose, and
the maximum number of students allowed in each group.
Depending on the activity settings, the students can view the members
of each group before making a choice, and change their selected group
until the deadline.

13. One Topic Format
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/format_onetopic
Format to course that allows showing each topic in a tab, keeping the
current tab between calls to resources, in such a way that when it
returns from a module as the blog or the glossary it returns to tab from
where you started.
This format is based on the Moodle standard format: “Topics”. It accepts
edition by AJAX.

14. Notifications Block
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_notifications
Not always logged in, you want to be up to date about new content,
discussions or events in your Moodle courses?
This moodle block implements a solution that periodically notifies
learners about new content or activities included into a Moodle course.
This solution will act as a sentinel that detects whether new contents or
new activities have been included into the Moodle course, and notify the
learners and/or the instructors about that.
Notifications methods are:
e-mail message RSS aggregator SMS message

15. Course Checks Block
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks
This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, that
are all user configurable. The checks were designed to encourage a
minimum standard of course quality and highlight possible opportunities
for improvement.
The block also has the option to allow users to "clear down" a course,
simply removing any sections that don't have content. It won't delete any
sections that have content and/or a summary.

16. Sandbox
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/local_sandbox
Moodle plugin which programmatically restores courses to predefined
course states. It can be used to provide playground moodle courses
which will be cleaned periodically.

17. TaskChain
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_taskchain
The TaskChain module allows several elearning "tasks" to be connected
together into a "chain" which forms a single Moodle activity. The activity
is accessed by clicking on a link on a Moodle course page.

18. Mass Actions Block
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_massaction
This block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources
or activities, rather than having to perform repeated actions on
individual items.

19. File Trash
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_filetrash
Utility for listing, downloading and deleting orphaned files (file no longer
referenced in the files db table but still present in the Moodle data
and/or backup directory

20. Essential
Plugins

21. Bootstrap Grid
Essential Plugins
Extends the Atto editor so that bootstrap grids can be inserted into user
generated content.

22. ATTO Fullscreen
Essential Plugins
This plugin adds a button to the toolbar which will expand the Atto editing
window to fill the entire browser window. All other parts of the page are
hidden.

23. ATTO Chemistry
Essential Plugins
Edit chemistry equations in Moodle 2.7, or later, using the mhchem extension
to the MathJax or TeX filter. Useful for full and ionic equations, isotopes,
equilibrium reactions, thermochemistry and reaction kinetics. Includes a
periodic table of element symbols.

24. Fullscreen Toggle
Essential Plugins
The Fullscreen toggle button expands the content area by hiding all side blocks.
Themes based on bootstrapbase / clean theme are supported.

25. Course Contents
Essential Plugins
Course contents block produces a table of contents for the course - that is a list
of all visible sections (topics or weeks) in the course. Clicking at one of these
links will display that particular section.

26. Auto Enrol
Essential Plugins
Enrol users into a course automatically, either as they log into your Moodle site or as they click on the course.
In addition the plugin has advanced functionality to support automatically grouping and filtering users based upon their
attributes.

27. The next Learn Moodle MOOC will be starting on 17
January 2016
https://learn.moodle.net/
What’s going on in the Moodle World?

28. What’s going on in the Moodle World?
No money in Further Education?
Free Sandboxes for tutors!
https://moodle.com/cloud/

29. What’s going on in the Moodle World?
Google Summer of Code Projects
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=319112
Bulk Meta Course Link
An improved version of enrol_meta plugin which allows you
to add multiple courses in a single enrol instance.
https://moodle.org/plugins/view/enrol_metabulk
Moorsp - Plagiarism Tool
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-
plagiarism_moorsp

30. What’s going on in the Moodle World?
PHP 7 for Moodle
http://catalyst.net.nz/blog/moodle-and-php7-are-we-there-yet

31. What’s going on in the Moodle World?
Overview Report in Moodle 2.9
http://www.moodlenews.com/2015/have-you-checked-out-the-
overview-report-in-2-9/

32. What’s going on in the Moodle World?
Facial Recognition for Moodle
https://vimeo.com/125665833

33. What’s going on in the Moodle World?
Gavin Henrick’s Presentation on Improving the
Student Experience
http://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/improving-the-student-
experience-gavin-henrick

34. End of Presentation
@lewiscarr